Laparoscopic Whipple's Operation for Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer Invading the Pancreas and Duodenum: a Case Report

Few surgeons have adopted pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for the treatment of advanced gastric cancer (AGC) invading the pancreas or duodenum because it remains controversial whether its prognostic benefits outweigh the high morbidity rates in such advanced cases. However, recent technical advances ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lee, Chang Min, Yoon, Sam-Youl, Park, Sungsoo, Park, Seong-Heum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Gastric Cancer Association 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6928087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31897350
http://dx.doi.org/10.5230/jgc.2019.19.e24
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Sumario:Few surgeons have adopted pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for the treatment of advanced gastric cancer (AGC) invading the pancreas or duodenum because it remains controversial whether its prognostic benefits outweigh the high morbidity rates in such advanced cases. However, recent technical advances have revived diverse surgical procedures in minimally invasive approaches. Inspired by this trend, laparoscopic PD procedures have been performed for AGC in our institute since 2014. We recently performed a laparoscopic Whipple's operation in a case of cT4b gastric cancer with invasion of the pancreatic head and duodenum.

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